Eye For An Eye Quotes

38 quotes by 29 authors

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. — Margaret Atwood
An eye for an eye makes us all blind. — Mahatma Gandhi
The Quran obliges every able Muslim to participate in jihad and fight in the way of Allah those who fight you, and kill them wherever… — Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab
How dangerous it is rashly to adopt the Mosaical institutions [Old Testament teachings of eye for an eye]. Laws might have been proper for a… — Gerald Heaney
You believe an eye for an eye until you are put in that situation. If they kill those guys, it really doesn't mean much to… — Michael Jordan
I donâ€™t believe in eye-for-an-eye. The most incredible, sustainable, beautiful movements have been non-violent movements of civil disobedience. — Ellen Page
I dont believe in an eye for an eye, I believe in two eyes for an eye — Bas Rutten
An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. — Kurt Vonnegut
I don't believe in stereotypes, I prefer to hate people on a more personal basis. The measure of a truly great man is the courtesy… — Mahatma Gandhi
The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind. It destroys communities and makes humanity impossible. It creates bitterness in the survivors… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The problems of this world are so gigantic that some are paralysed by their own uncertainty. Courage and wisdom are needed to reach out above… — Beatrix of the Netherlands
And violence is impractical, because the old eye for an eye philosophy ends up leaving everybody blind .. It is immoral because it is a… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Gandhi was right: if we all live by 'an eye for an eye' the whole world will be blind. The only way out is forgiveness. — Lewis B. Smedes
An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind...… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Any racial reconciliation we've had in this country has come not out of confrontation but out of a spirit of reconciliation. If we continue to… — Andrew Young
An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. a burn for a burn. a life for a life. that's how all this got… — Jenny Han
There is a power in love that our world has not discovered yet. Jesus discovered it centuries ago. Mahatma Gandhi of India discovered it a… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The reason I can't follow the old eye-for-an-eye philosophy is that it ends up leaving everyone blind. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I don't see any kind of mirror of power, male power, that is, as a form of liberation. I don't believe in an eye for… — Sandra Cisneros

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